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[applause] >> your advice to the president and speaker boehner? >> compromise and do the right thing. the solution is out there. let's get with it. now is the magic moment. it's our responsibility. >> with that i want to thank both you. we're out of time here. in fact, i'm going to rush over to a bloomberg television camera to take a look at more of your time. the conversation will continue here at this summer. thank you all of you for joining us. thank you to the two of you. >> thank you. >> again, appreciate your work as well. we will be right back in just a moment as we continue here at this fiscal summit. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the peter g. peterson foundation, michael peterson. [applause] >> while politics is often centerstage, policy and substance will form the basis of many fiscal agreement. we at the peterson foundation believe that the mortgages and the more solutions brought to the table, the better. out initia
[applause] >> your advice to the president and speaker boehner? >> compromise and do the right thing. the solution is out there. let's get with it. now is the magic moment. it's our responsibility. >> with that i want to thank both you. we're out of time here. in fact, i'm going to rush over to a bloomberg television camera to take a look at more of your time. the conversation will continue here at this summer. thank you all of you for joining us. thank you to the two of you....
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at the end of the day was boehner who walked away is my understanding. i should be careful because i don't cover the legislative side things very often but that is my read. i'm not sure about the cbo health care. >> host: this is a tweet from the viewer. both europe cannot have peaked in the free market they created. tariff? >> guest: i think that overstates it. the truth is we are still -- the united states is still the world's biggest economy and europe collectively as the second biggest and that may change eventually. china may eventually surpass us because they have a much bigger population. on a per capita basis it is not foreseeable that china surpasses the united states or europe in terms of economic output. for high-grade services, for high-grade manufactured airplanes, the stuff that is really hard to make it so the case that the u.s. and europe are more efficient on it and most developing nations and you see that in our overall lead structure. now, whether tariffs are a good idea or not is disconnected to how we are competing and i think most e
at the end of the day was boehner who walked away is my understanding. i should be careful because i don't cover the legislative side things very often but that is my read. i'm not sure about the cbo health care. >> host: this is a tweet from the viewer. both europe cannot have peaked in the free market they created. tariff? >> guest: i think that overstates it. the truth is we are still -- the united states is still the world's biggest economy and europe collectively as the second...
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so, just does speaker boehner have the votes for his proposal? >> guest: i think the question will be does the president have the votes? because the speaker put some things out in terms of entitlements and democrats are willing and screaming that can't be part of it, yet all of them privately will tell you what's driving the deficit more than any single thing of medicare and medicaid and longer-term social security, so the mere fact that we are discussing those types of things fit. in terms of the votes, look, if it's going to be a deal there has to be votes from both sides. the reality is -- and these guys, the president and the speaker dealt with one another before. they've never been able to come to a deal. they came to a huge deal during the lame-duck session in 2010 on extending the bush tax cuts. they came to another deal without shutting down the government in april of 2011 cutting discretionary spending by billions of dollars and they came to another one on the debt ceiling as well which was a 2.2 trillion dollar long-term reduction in ex
so, just does speaker boehner have the votes for his proposal? >> guest: i think the question will be does the president have the votes? because the speaker put some things out in terms of entitlements and democrats are willing and screaming that can't be part of it, yet all of them privately will tell you what's driving the deficit more than any single thing of medicare and medicaid and longer-term social security, so the mere fact that we are discussing those types of things fit. in...
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that means john boehner falling on a grenade. you can do that but when you have eric cantor and kevin mccarthy eager to reach under your bull belly and pull the pin on that grenade it makes it a little bit harder because you're not going to have unified leadership to support this and it will be a very interesting dynamic. what struck me the most about election eve in a related vein was with barack obama said, extraordinarily i thought. i want to sit down with mitt romney to see how we can work together to find that common ground. my guess is that romney did not receive that statement with great enthusiasm and eagerness. he was going through his own period according but after running a campaign that was built around the idea, i will find a common ground and i can reach a common ground obama calls the minutes as says we really need this. we are about to go off the fiscal cliff. would you help me build support for this deal that will have the support of the business community and a supermajority in the senate in a bipartisan way. th
that means john boehner falling on a grenade. you can do that but when you have eric cantor and kevin mccarthy eager to reach under your bull belly and pull the pin on that grenade it makes it a little bit harder because you're not going to have unified leadership to support this and it will be a very interesting dynamic. what struck me the most about election eve in a related vein was with barack obama said, extraordinarily i thought. i want to sit down with mitt romney to see how we can work...
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and john boehner -- release specifically data information. that is fantastic and might take awhile to happen but to have the leadership committed to it is important. on a related note, docks.house.gov has been underappreciate it in how much it offers. if you look at the active bills on the floor it says for each bill it gives you a different format to download or get a developer to build a web site that gives people access to it. on top of that it shows you the time of day to the minute that the bill was posted and it is extraordinary that it says 1:23 a.m. because the rules committee sees the schedule and how they function but they give you to the minute the time the bill was posted and that is a demonstration that they are saying we are here for you to judge us and to know how long the bill is online and it was a response to political pressure and coming up with a better way for things to work and recognize electronic documents are a function of the official version of the house rules. wasn't everything we wanted. the rallying cry was 72 ho
and john boehner -- release specifically data information. that is fantastic and might take awhile to happen but to have the leadership committed to it is important. on a related note, docks.house.gov has been underappreciate it in how much it offers. if you look at the active bills on the floor it says for each bill it gives you a different format to download or get a developer to build a web site that gives people access to it. on top of that it shows you the time of day to the minute that...
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soy hope that -- so hoeup -- so i hope speaker boehner will reconsider. i believe it is much too early to give up. i urge my republican colleagues not to give up on themselves because i'm not going to give up on them. it's time for them to stopl rooting for the -- stop rooting for the economy to fail, start rooting for congress to succeed in reaching common ground. the markets are watching our every move with moody's saying yesterday that they were thinking of down grading our debt standing, credit rating. there's no hope -- it's not the right time to say there is no hope in getting anything done. i disagree. i say the glass is half full. the speaker came after that reminder for moody's came forward. we're willing to work, i say that to my friend john boehner and to everyone else. we're willing to negotiate, cooperate, willing to make difficult cuts to programs we hold dear, and i think republicans should do the same. so far they refused. they refused to raise even a penny of new revenue. they refused to ask millionaires to contribute their fair share to
soy hope that -- so hoeup -- so i hope speaker boehner will reconsider. i believe it is much too early to give up. i urge my republican colleagues not to give up on themselves because i'm not going to give up on them. it's time for them to stopl rooting for the -- stop rooting for the economy to fail, start rooting for congress to succeed in reaching common ground. the markets are watching our every move with moody's saying yesterday that they were thinking of down grading our debt standing,...
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there is no reason why speaker boehner shouldn't bring this bill to a floor vote. he will win the vote because i know democrats and some republicans will definitely support it. he needs to be speaker of the house not speaker of the republicans. just as tip o'neill when i was there wasn't speaker of the democrats, he was speaker of the house. as a matter of fact, the way tip did it is he would get half the democrats and half the republicans and he didn't care what you were, an independent, whatever your -- conservative, liberal, he would just go up to you and say, "can you be with me on this? it's good for the country. ronald reagan and i agree." that was tip o'neill. and i know what that's like. ronald reagan and tip o'neill. it ought to be president obama and john boehner saying, we should pass this middle class -- now, here's the thing i don't get. when the bush tax cuts went into place, they were passed overwhelmingly by republicans. why wouldn't the same republicans want to make sure that they continue for 98% of the people? i don't get it. i did not vote for t
there is no reason why speaker boehner shouldn't bring this bill to a floor vote. he will win the vote because i know democrats and some republicans will definitely support it. he needs to be speaker of the house not speaker of the republicans. just as tip o'neill when i was there wasn't speaker of the democrats, he was speaker of the house. as a matter of fact, the way tip did it is he would get half the democrats and half the republicans and he didn't care what you were, an independent,...
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a deal i would have liked but a deal it was john boehner who couldn't deliver. >> that's not true. >> it is true. it is very true. and was john boehner that backed away from it. >> you can't really write history. >> nevertheless, he didn't get a deal. simon? >> i think some of the things i want to press a little bit on the two items. first, grover norquist. there's a perception that mr. norquist is opposed to anything that would involve a tax increase including adjusting the tax expenditures and in that context it is a question of which tax expenditures would you regard as being on the table for the tax reform, which ones are you going to eliminate to boost revenue if you are pushing and i think you are for the lower tax rates, that is a hard combination by the way. >> it is a hard combination and i think that ryan was speaking not for the committee but by himself probably of land the conceptual approach that makes the most sense which is to start looking at all the individual income tax deductions and means testing. i haven't done all of the math on that but you get to a point where
a deal i would have liked but a deal it was john boehner who couldn't deliver. >> that's not true. >> it is true. it is very true. and was john boehner that backed away from it. >> you can't really write history. >> nevertheless, he didn't get a deal. simon? >> i think some of the things i want to press a little bit on the two items. first, grover norquist. there's a perception that mr. norquist is opposed to anything that would involve a tax increase including...
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boehner a long, rather than do things, just vote for my son. [inaudible] >> thank you both for coming. [inaudible] >> then we went back to this conference, couldn't get there. we have work to do, pete, really did come into the beyond the rhetoric and hopefully the election will make absolutely clear what the american people are hoping for us to do in the way we tackle both the fiscal cliff at the end of the year, then obviously future tax reform. >> thank you both for joining us. [applause] >> thank you. that was a terrific panel. our next keynote interview this morning while we're getting the stage reset is the honorable john dingell, president of the business roundtable which is an association of chief executive officers of the leading u.s. corporations who have a combined workforce of nearly 60 million workers and more than 7 trillion in annual revenues. a former three term governor of michigan he assumed the leadership of the art in general 2011 him after serving six years as president and ceo of the national association of manufacturers. w
boehner a long, rather than do things, just vote for my son. [inaudible] >> thank you both for coming. [inaudible] >> then we went back to this conference, couldn't get there. we have work to do, pete, really did come into the beyond the rhetoric and hopefully the election will make absolutely clear what the american people are hoping for us to do in the way we tackle both the fiscal cliff at the end of the year, then obviously future tax reform. >> thank you both for joining...
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and, you know, what i would like to tell john boehner is don't give in to this craziness. this is nothing but craziness. and i watched harry reid yesterday. you know, he talked and he talked and he really said nothing. then he went on about dance, dance, dance and i thought to myself all you do is dance around with these bills that they send. the house will have a bill, they send it to the senate and what does he do? dances around it and never addresses it. >> host: know by partisanship than for you? >> caller: no, absolutely none. then when he left the stage and was walking off, the man -- i feel bad for him that he just can't get it together -- he grabbed ahold of the flag. he was falling. then he grabbed ahold of low wall and at that point i said uh oh that man needs to go home. he's too old to be there. he doesn't do his job and is collecting a big paycheck. >> host: we covered that news conference. you probably watched it on c-span, go over to the site, c-span.org if you want to watch the entire press conference with senate majority leader harry reid. on facebook here
and, you know, what i would like to tell john boehner is don't give in to this craziness. this is nothing but craziness. and i watched harry reid yesterday. you know, he talked and he talked and he really said nothing. then he went on about dance, dance, dance and i thought to myself all you do is dance around with these bills that they send. the house will have a bill, they send it to the senate and what does he do? dances around it and never addresses it. >> host: know by partisanship...
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he urged speaker boehner to abandon the grand bargain talks with president obama. "the new york times" reported in 2011, "ryan appealed to representative cantor to cut off negotiations between the speaker and the white house because he didn't feel the terms of the emerging agreement adhered strictly enough to his conservative principles and the deal might politically benefit president obama." so, it is not a secret that the ryan budget both hurts the middle class and does nothing for deficit reduction. the only people who would benefit are the very wealthy, and god bless them. they're doing well in america, but as recent statistics just showed, they're the only people gaining income. and one other thing i'd like to add about mr. ryan here: he seems like a nice man, nice family, but his recent speeches have just been so revealing, and he did the same thing yesterday once again showing he has learned nothing from the mistakes he's made in the last few weeks. when it comes to the big debates facing our country, paul ryan either has an extremely poor memory or has a te
he urged speaker boehner to abandon the grand bargain talks with president obama. "the new york times" reported in 2011, "ryan appealed to representative cantor to cut off negotiations between the speaker and the white house because he didn't feel the terms of the emerging agreement adhered strictly enough to his conservative principles and the deal might politically benefit president obama." so, it is not a secret that the ryan budget both hurts the middle class and does...
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and i was struck when speaker john boehner said yesterday the higher tax rates are unacceptable to him. with all due respect it's not really his choice anymore. what's different about this environment is fax the tax rates, the bush tax rates to expire for everybody. after this campaign would be pretty shocking as any candidate ever. i am going to raise taxes, and unless he suddenly decides i didn't mean it it doesn't really matter all that much what the speaker thinks is acceptable because on this one issue that tax cuts will expire. all house republicans a sign grover norquist not to raise tax rates. the entire bush tax cut expires the end of the year you extend it for 97% of americans he's never actually voted to raise taxes. you're only cutting taxes. so it's possible when the speaker said that yesterday i was thinking it wasn't really reflecting the world that he now lives and so unless the president is willing, they will not be. >> i have a question for you. to what extent will there be a major -- it was in the republican party against the tea party. >> i'm sorry? >> to what exten
and i was struck when speaker john boehner said yesterday the higher tax rates are unacceptable to him. with all due respect it's not really his choice anymore. what's different about this environment is fax the tax rates, the bush tax rates to expire for everybody. after this campaign would be pretty shocking as any candidate ever. i am going to raise taxes, and unless he suddenly decides i didn't mean it it doesn't really matter all that much what the speaker thinks is acceptable because on...
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you probably saw the article this morning from covered and what joe boehner said. some optimism in 2013 the way that it might play out is whether we go over or don't go over the siskel cliff there's a lot to happen in the next three months that we get to some space where if they did a trillion dollars of cuts and reforms of entitlements a trillion dollars on discretionary, naturally in on revenue and a trillion on saved interest which is only because the budget doesn't understand and doesn't value but that's okay. if you did that, you basically cut sort of a grand bargain in a way that would be i think it pretty good accomplishment for both parties. but i feel the principal thing is can you get a significant chunk of republicans in the house to support anything that has a trillion dollars of revenue. >> so you think they've reached a large and -- morgan. >> i thought that's what you're asking. >> i am somewhat pessimistic that they would be able to sort out that board in the next two months, so i'm afraid i think a serious danger they go for the fiscal cliff in the
you probably saw the article this morning from covered and what joe boehner said. some optimism in 2013 the way that it might play out is whether we go over or don't go over the siskel cliff there's a lot to happen in the next three months that we get to some space where if they did a trillion dollars of cuts and reforms of entitlements a trillion dollars on discretionary, naturally in on revenue and a trillion on saved interest which is only because the budget doesn't understand and doesn't...
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with the congresswoman, you're going to to start talking about her, you might want to ask him at sean boehner, eric cantor, our beloved paul ryan, how much are they packing away? i don't think you should really go there. anyway, i just feel so far sorry for you and what she's had to deal with that crowd, honor, cantor. i don't understand why we pay their salaries when they are not even there working. you know, why are we paying for them? >> guest: mitt romney, the snotty attitude, who do you think are in the order 7%? qualifiers, firsters binders, they would talk about bad government. they are in government. they are getting paid by their government paid people and they have done nothing but complain and whine about government. so romney has been a liar through this whole campaign. he's been lying through his teeth. i was going to try and spin his way out of this. let's get something straight. he doesn't ever understand a regular person. he could care less about it. >> host: kathleen, gotcher point. we'll move on to make in greenwood, south carolina. >> caller: good morning. what romney said,
with the congresswoman, you're going to to start talking about her, you might want to ask him at sean boehner, eric cantor, our beloved paul ryan, how much are they packing away? i don't think you should really go there. anyway, i just feel so far sorry for you and what she's had to deal with that crowd, honor, cantor. i don't understand why we pay their salaries when they are not even there working. you know, why are we paying for them? >> guest: mitt romney, the snotty attitude, who do...
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president obama and speaker boehner cut this deal. did you ever buy a car, sit down with the salesman, decide on a price, shake hands? you have been through that, right? he says, i have to go check with the manager. [laughter] obama shook hands with boehner last july. the deal fell apart. i am not trying to say why. they had a deal. revenues $800 billion. entitlements, health, $400 billion. remember my charts. that is where the major problem is. a good start. chained cpi, the way we index federal programs. $800 billion in entitlements. these are very approximate numbers. these are the deals they settled on. this sequester accomplishes that. the other stuff fell apart. why do i point this out? they had a deal. they shook hands. it is not impossible for us to get a deal. at least to put the process down for a deal. let's not give up hope. so what would a deal look like. kick the can down the road another year. they could use the budget resolution and reconciliation rules to put a restraint on a future congress of about a $3 trillion alo
president obama and speaker boehner cut this deal. did you ever buy a car, sit down with the salesman, decide on a price, shake hands? you have been through that, right? he says, i have to go check with the manager. [laughter] obama shook hands with boehner last july. the deal fell apart. i am not trying to say why. they had a deal. revenues $800 billion. entitlements, health, $400 billion. remember my charts. that is where the major problem is. a good start. chained cpi, the way we index...
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how does barack obama help boehner do that? and that's going to be i think big key fiscal issue coming up >> one toshiba will be competitive in 2014, mitch mcconnell see. whether in the primary or the general election, he actually concerned about his reelection. he's been raising like $1 million a quarter in the off year. every quarter for the last year and a half or so. he hired rand paul's campaign manager. ron paul's former presidential campaign chairman to come right his race in 2012. so he assisted by turning -- preparing for the contest's. he has a tough spot. emitted comment your colleague, major garrett, our top priority is stopping barack obama. congressional approval rating went down to historic lows 10%. and they suffered last night. one bad thing about, you talk about statements being made when the television cameras are on the one bad thing about this polarization that we have worked at we usually only watch msnbc or only watch fox and only talk to people that want to hear from is that you begin to adopt this alter
how does barack obama help boehner do that? and that's going to be i think big key fiscal issue coming up >> one toshiba will be competitive in 2014, mitch mcconnell see. whether in the primary or the general election, he actually concerned about his reelection. he's been raising like $1 million a quarter in the off year. every quarter for the last year and a half or so. he hired rand paul's campaign manager. ron paul's former presidential campaign chairman to come right his race in 2012....
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reid and nancy pelosi and steny hoyer or glen if you were sitting down with mitch mcconnell or john boehner, or eric cantore and they are about to go in the room and get a lot of love on their hands and the ankle deep in blood -- not to be too vivid. [laughter] .. sort of point out sort of all the different angles, and i really believe, you know, there are times in the country when you are not looking for abc. you are looking from one a-z. i'm writing a book on the 1815 compromise, and it seems people listen more. but putting my fact had on what i would tell them is -- and i'm sure glen could say this, too, talking to people on the phone, talking to people in focus groups, i'm always very impressed as a few good american that when you get down to it to the american people have common sense. they may not like some medicine. like with my kids, none of the medicines of the pharmacy you put a sweetener and they have it all the time that they may need the sweetener, would fundamentally we all want to do the right thing. i know it sounds may be mr. smithish but don't have people like us in the ro
reid and nancy pelosi and steny hoyer or glen if you were sitting down with mitch mcconnell or john boehner, or eric cantore and they are about to go in the room and get a lot of love on their hands and the ankle deep in blood -- not to be too vivid. [laughter] .. sort of point out sort of all the different angles, and i really believe, you know, there are times in the country when you are not looking for abc. you are looking from one a-z. i'm writing a book on the 1815 compromise, and it seems...
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i thought they wanted some elaboration since they are very accomplished boehner, and i think we're going to kick it off with monique. >> thank you. i have my notes on a powerpoint, but there are no charge to give you can see them it's okay. it's basically notes to myself. but my time is avoiding a not so grand bargain, and actually jamie galbraith using algae that ask what he is which is you're getting the hard sell from osgood is a timeshare. he said condit. you could say regular, you could say car dealer. but his point was that a lot of other people have mentioned this that when you're getting the heart so it's time to stop and think. i would go a little further and say when you're getting the heart so, you know you're not getting the best deal you can. so effective don't stop and think, walk away, see what happens and then come back. and my particular focus, even though historically i look at the reserves and these days it's been a lot on retirement and social security. so i'm particularly concern of social security. i thought it's going to be taking the last, the last slot. and so i'
i thought they wanted some elaboration since they are very accomplished boehner, and i think we're going to kick it off with monique. >> thank you. i have my notes on a powerpoint, but there are no charge to give you can see them it's okay. it's basically notes to myself. but my time is avoiding a not so grand bargain, and actually jamie galbraith using algae that ask what he is which is you're getting the hard sell from osgood is a timeshare. he said condit. you could say regular, you...
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i think you're going to see john boehner. he's an adult and there's no question about that he knows what needs to be done. if necessary he will sacrifice being elected speaker of the next time around to do the right thing. he had the president can get together and the president will give on entitlements and taxes in the sense that the race will come down there will be enough left over from the so-called loopholes. then the senate is where it has to start. you will see lamar alexander or our corner and others come together in the framework. they can put the frame work together by you can't initiate it has to be initiated in the house that that will be the framework and again in this one of the you want to say kind of thing and then that can be where the folks can rally around. you have to set a framework in the lame-duck session. you can't go to the end of the year because a will start to smell but it takes time to get it right. you have to do corporate and personal taxes to get their. you can't do one without the other. it wi
i think you're going to see john boehner. he's an adult and there's no question about that he knows what needs to be done. if necessary he will sacrifice being elected speaker of the next time around to do the right thing. he had the president can get together and the president will give on entitlements and taxes in the sense that the race will come down there will be enough left over from the so-called loopholes. then the senate is where it has to start. you will see lamar alexander or our...
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john boehner still in the house for the time being at the treasury. the president is back in the white house and harry reid is in the senate with a few more seats. why should i believe this would end any more positively than the summer of 2011? >> because again i'm not going to try to talk to you in optimism but let's look at what's changed. you have republican leadership acknowledging for the first time in this debate in public that it's agreed to increase in revenues as part of an agreement that helps restore fiscal balance. that's a very important change. you can debate on what motivated that change, and of course it's true that approach has been a popular very substantial support among the american people. you have a much greater recognition that the economy would benefit on a carefully designed balanced agreement on fiscal reform and putting it off indefinitely is not good for the country. that's important, too. and i also think again if you listen carefully to what people are saying and what many politicians are saying with many elected represen
john boehner still in the house for the time being at the treasury. the president is back in the white house and harry reid is in the senate with a few more seats. why should i believe this would end any more positively than the summer of 2011? >> because again i'm not going to try to talk to you in optimism but let's look at what's changed. you have republican leadership acknowledging for the first time in this debate in public that it's agreed to increase in revenues as part of an...
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there is some sign that, you know, if president obama's re-legislated, speaker boehner does have a different caucus, whatever happens, the senate happens, the people know the vail set of options. there is thought they can do a patch and go on, but it's hard. >> yeah, there are people, i honestly believe and off the record conversations with people in both parties who, on some level, think sequester is the only way it's going to get done, that the differences are so stark, you know, tom coburn makes the case, republican, very conservative on spending. i mean, he makes the case that if, you know, left with a choice of not saving $1.2 trillion or going the sequester, he says, i'll take the sequester. there are people in the tea party who also believe the same thing. >> there are, the senator has done some really in-depth work and detailed work over the numbers. he is representative more than just senator coburn with his true commitment to budget savings. how much to cut? there's debates about that. about 94 billion has to be cut from the discretionary spending, a nice inside the beltway term. i
there is some sign that, you know, if president obama's re-legislated, speaker boehner does have a different caucus, whatever happens, the senate happens, the people know the vail set of options. there is thought they can do a patch and go on, but it's hard. >> yeah, there are people, i honestly believe and off the record conversations with people in both parties who, on some level, think sequester is the only way it's going to get done, that the differences are so stark, you know, tom...
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boehner and mr. cantor worked out a compromise and so now we can again take more time here, you can analyze it, see whether you agree with that or not and i certainly like when the senate works out agreements and oftentimes we've asked our house colleagues to vote on them. but we are now with student loan bill that needs to be done, with this export-import bank that needs to be done and many other important economic agenda items that we should get to for this country. so i hope that when this cloture motion comes forward that my colleagues will realize the only things that people are trying to do now are either they can vote no on the program if they don't like it because they are primarily amendments to defund the bank. so these aren't perfecting amendments to a compromise that's been worked out. these are people who want to express their opposition. so they'll have a chance to do that. so i hope for the sake of thousands of jobs in the united states, for the sake of u.s. competitiveness in a global
boehner and mr. cantor worked out a compromise and so now we can again take more time here, you can analyze it, see whether you agree with that or not and i certainly like when the senate works out agreements and oftentimes we've asked our house colleagues to vote on them. but we are now with student loan bill that needs to be done, with this export-import bank that needs to be done and many other important economic agenda items that we should get to for this country. so i hope that when this...
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question is controlling the rate of growth and that's where the congress, congressman ryan, speaker boehner, bipartisan group all decided that they should be cuts to the growth. you know, just against some of the facts. you know, talk about naval assets. our navy is bigger than the next 13 navies combined. and that's why but fy 20 we will have 300 ships. that's the projection. i can, their plan is in search of a strategy. 60% of those assets are going to be deployed to the pacific by 2020. the air force will have roughly the same amount of plants by 2017 the significantly more platforms, significant more capabilities. this notion of counting ships and we had in 1916 versus ships that we have been 2011, or projected (112)020-2020, is slightly ridiculous, given the incredible capabilities that our forces, their ships under weapons systems now have. and in which they operate. so if you know, it's one thing to say, dov says we should listen to the military when it comes to afghanistan, but we should listen to the military when it comes to our budget. and we should listen to the military when it
question is controlling the rate of growth and that's where the congress, congressman ryan, speaker boehner, bipartisan group all decided that they should be cuts to the growth. you know, just against some of the facts. you know, talk about naval assets. our navy is bigger than the next 13 navies combined. and that's why but fy 20 we will have 300 ships. that's the projection. i can, their plan is in search of a strategy. 60% of those assets are going to be deployed to the pacific by 2020. the...
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i was dismayed to hear speaker boehner once again urge the senate to take up the house-passed bill extending more tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. mr. president, the senate has already considered the bill, and we reject it on a bipartisan basis, so for the speaker to say bring it up, we already have. it was voted down in this congress. the senate has spoken. president obama has spoken. he has promised he will not sign any bill that mortgages our future to pay for handouts for the wealthiest 2% of americans. i only hope house republicans have been listening. i also hope my colleagues, republicans and democrats, members of the house and the senate, used the thanksgiving break not only to give thanks but also to reflect on the monumental tasks ahead. i hope they took time to reflect on the effort it will take to complete these tasks. as president eisenhower said, there will have to be compromises, and seeking the middle of the road isn't just acceptable, it's the only way forward. mr. president, let me just say a few words about the schedule. discussions continue on the defense aut
i was dismayed to hear speaker boehner once again urge the senate to take up the house-passed bill extending more tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. mr. president, the senate has already considered the bill, and we reject it on a bipartisan basis, so for the speaker to say bring it up, we already have. it was voted down in this congress. the senate has spoken. president obama has spoken. he has promised he will not sign any bill that mortgages our future to pay for handouts for the...
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president obama met at the white house with key congressional leaders including house speaker john boehner, house democratic leader nancy pelosi, senate majority leader harry reid and a republican mitch mcconnell. the first meeting since the election. they discussed what to do about expiring busheir tax reductions and across-the-board spending cuts set to hit in january called the fiscal cliff. they allowed cameras in the room before the talks. >> i want to welcome the congressional leadership and thank them for their time. we have -- factors don't go on middle class families that our economy remains strong and we are creating jobs and and that's the agenda that democrats and republicans and independents all across the country share so our challenge is to make sure that we are able to capri together and work to find common ground, make compromises and build consensus. all of us agree on this they want to see us focused on that but not our politics here in washington. my hope is this is the beginning of a process where we are able to come to an agreement that will reduce our deficit in a ba
president obama met at the white house with key congressional leaders including house speaker john boehner, house democratic leader nancy pelosi, senate majority leader harry reid and a republican mitch mcconnell. the first meeting since the election. they discussed what to do about expiring busheir tax reductions and across-the-board spending cuts set to hit in january called the fiscal cliff. they allowed cameras in the room before the talks. >> i want to welcome the congressional...
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. >> and we had john boehner, speaker john boehner tell us that he may have said -- he said it to us, he said i never read those platforms. [laughter] this is after the -- >> you know, the convention, big deal. i don't read them. you get it all in one page. he said, in fact, he said nobody reads the platform. >> but we did. [laughter] >> what can we look for in the next two weeks, between now and election day? what are your, what do you anticipate? >> fasten your seat belts. >> yeah, fasten your seat belt. i mean, i think you've seen some of the silly rhetoric that we're going to get for the next two weeks, but more than that what you're not seeing is what's going on, and that is those get out the vote efforts. and those are the most intense ting -- things. and also they're doing something that i don't understand, i mean, thai got these 14-year-olds that can talk to the entire world with a tweet, and they've got this way of having them all talk to the friends in their social network, and so there's a lot of stuff going out there that is just not obvious to the camera's eye at this poi
. >> and we had john boehner, speaker john boehner tell us that he may have said -- he said it to us, he said i never read those platforms. [laughter] this is after the -- >> you know, the convention, big deal. i don't read them. you get it all in one page. he said, in fact, he said nobody reads the platform. >> but we did. [laughter] >> what can we look for in the next two weeks, between now and election day? what are your, what do you anticipate? >> fasten your...
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i recognize, boehner, the type of somebody to negotiability with and i can work with. and -- saying just vote for my stuff. it's not very persuasive. >> all right. thank you both for coming. we got close to the president and went back to the -- couldn't get there. so we work to do, pete, we really do in moving beyond the rhetoric and hopefully the election will make absolutely clear what the american people are hoping for us to do the way we tackle the fiscal cliff and future tax reform. thank you both for joining us. [applause] [applause] >> we talked in the what's panel a lot about 2013 and what's going to happen i want to go back to the end of the year. what do you both feel like is likely to actually happen then, and what are some areas where you can see a comprise happening? >> doug, you want to start? >> sure. i think it's important to recognize that really three different issues involved, and the first is the literally the fiscal cliff. the end of the tax increases and spending cuts that will happen on auto pilot. which i view as a tremendous threat to the econo
i recognize, boehner, the type of somebody to negotiability with and i can work with. and -- saying just vote for my stuff. it's not very persuasive. >> all right. thank you both for coming. we got close to the president and went back to the -- couldn't get there. so we work to do, pete, we really do in moving beyond the rhetoric and hopefully the election will make absolutely clear what the american people are hoping for us to do the way we tackle the fiscal cliff and future tax reform....
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and john boehner now with tom quick. what concerns me most is recruiting young people to be in that thought as they see the house. you don't see the dynamism, the spontaneity, the friendships that all i saw during my years. perhaps they don't develop the affection, and that sentiment was very sustaining over many years. the new folks that are coming along to say we are here to do a job for the house of representatives is a challenge. >> do you think that he party will infuse more openness and transparency in the congress? >> that's hard to predict. the idea of do they want openness, or do they just on their agenda? i don't know. the debt limit issue is any indication by the tea party i don't know the answer to your question let me just say that's not a parliamentary inquiry. [laughter] >> i have read many sources that the field of the friendship has broken down in congress because congressmen fly home on the weekends, and there's not these relationships such as for all reagan had with tip o'neill coming and people don't
and john boehner now with tom quick. what concerns me most is recruiting young people to be in that thought as they see the house. you don't see the dynamism, the spontaneity, the friendships that all i saw during my years. perhaps they don't develop the affection, and that sentiment was very sustaining over many years. the new folks that are coming along to say we are here to do a job for the house of representatives is a challenge. >> do you think that he party will infuse more openness...
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you gate final statement. >> i find it interesting you mention john boehner. he'll be in central illinois headlining a fundraising for my opponent in champagne. it's example after example of what happens when you turn over a government to the corporations. you get a medicare prescription drug bill. uncle sam -- we blew $2 trillion with that. you get the subsidizes every year to oil companies. our tax dollars we give to oil companies because these guys take check from exxonmobil. >> moderator: thank you. our next question. illinois state university we had numerous questions submitted be et student. we'll get to the number one question later on in the debate. the next question is the top question from the student. >> on behalf of the students i want to thank you for participating in the debate. one of the top questions that the students e-mailed me about to ask is when it comes to reducing the deficit, there's two ways to reduce it, cuts and or revenue. our cuts enough would you cut would you even vote for a tax increase for revenue? >> moderator: candidate davi
you gate final statement. >> i find it interesting you mention john boehner. he'll be in central illinois headlining a fundraising for my opponent in champagne. it's example after example of what happens when you turn over a government to the corporations. you get a medicare prescription drug bill. uncle sam -- we blew $2 trillion with that. you get the subsidizes every year to oil companies. our tax dollars we give to oil companies because these guys take check from exxonmobil. >>...
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senator boehner -- speaker boehner shook on it. minority leader mcconnell shook on it. majority leader reid signed it. and joined many of my colleagues in voting for it. and then president obama signed it into law. it became the law of the land. a law that i would add is binding, that replaces and carries more weight than a budget resolution and that makes the budget resolutions we are debating today nothing more than political theater. senate democrats fully intend to honor our word and stick to the bipartisan budget levels for next year. and senate republicans in our appropriations committee, including the minority leader, recently voted to stick to those levels as well. but i was really disappointed that less than nine months after we shook hands on that deal, house republicans turned right around and broke it. they put appeasing their extreme base ahead of the word they gave to us and the american people and they demonstrated clearly that a deal with them isn't worth the paper it's printed on. but despite house republicans' reneging on the deal, the budget control a
senator boehner -- speaker boehner shook on it. minority leader mcconnell shook on it. majority leader reid signed it. and joined many of my colleagues in voting for it. and then president obama signed it into law. it became the law of the land. a law that i would add is binding, that replaces and carries more weight than a budget resolution and that makes the budget resolutions we are debating today nothing more than political theater. senate democrats fully intend to honor our word and stick...
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can john boehner cut a deal without eric cantor and paul ryan? >> well i have a pretty good understanding of the house, but i'm always wondering into leadership politics. just to broaden the question a little bit, i think the question is whether or not the speaker is going to be able to bring a good part of his caucus, and that will require a united leadership team. >> just to interrupt, and talking short-term. >> i understand and i think that is going to be a requirement. i think one of the decisions that the speaker will have to make is whether he is prepared to put a bill in agreement on the floor of the house that by not have the majority of republicans in the house to support. that is one of the questions, because senator corker points out that there are a number of ways to say yes on this but it's not clear in my mind whether there is a way that necessarily brings the majority of the house republicans. not that we can't get a majority in the house but the hastert rule after speaker hastert you have to have half the republicans the matter wh
can john boehner cut a deal without eric cantor and paul ryan? >> well i have a pretty good understanding of the house, but i'm always wondering into leadership politics. just to broaden the question a little bit, i think the question is whether or not the speaker is going to be able to bring a good part of his caucus, and that will require a united leadership team. >> just to interrupt, and talking short-term. >> i understand and i think that is going to be a requirement. i...
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like to -- i should try -- by the way, that was a source of, you know -- [inaudible] because when john boehner first used the tighten our belt metaphor, six months later the president started using it, and it made us all pretty unhappy. but, look, i think the right decision, we are not an individual family. we are a society. and what that means, if you are just, you know, some person who's overspent, then, sure, you can cut back on your spending and try and work off your debt. but we are a society where who are you selling your, selling stuff to? >> you're selling stuff to each other. my spending is your income, your spending is my income. if all of us decide at the same time we're going to tighten our belts and spend less, guess what? we all end up poorer because all of our spending falls at the same time. and by the way, this is the kind of stuff that we're supposed to know. this is stuff that we've known since the 1930s, right? everybody to slash spending at the same time, they think it's too much debt is self-defeating. and so that's why the metaphor is wrong. .. they are not going to inve
like to -- i should try -- by the way, that was a source of, you know -- [inaudible] because when john boehner first used the tighten our belt metaphor, six months later the president started using it, and it made us all pretty unhappy. but, look, i think the right decision, we are not an individual family. we are a society. and what that means, if you are just, you know, some person who's overspent, then, sure, you can cut back on your spending and try and work off your debt. but we are a...
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narrow those bills as much as we possibly can because i think in the previous speaker prior to speaker boehner there was great frustration with 2700-page bills and having to pass it to read it to find out what was in it. [laughter] >> thank you, madam chairman. >> [inaudible] >> gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. >> jay barrows. could we call until question, leads? >> question can be could. okay. all in favor of calling the question? >> aye. >> all opposed? >> [inaudible] >> question has been called for. mr. kerr -- kerby's amendment, gr21, the language highlighted and on the screen in front of you. all in favor of mr. kerby's amendment will say aye. >> aye. >> all opposed, no. >> no. >> the amendment fails. at this time we move to page 6, line 8, the u.s. postal system. we go through line 15. at this time i have no amendments to this section. is there anyone seeking to amend or discuss this section? we will let the record reflect that at 1:55 p.m. the this section was agreed to and closed for further amendment. moving to line 16, reforming the tsa, through line 22. i have no amendmen
narrow those bills as much as we possibly can because i think in the previous speaker prior to speaker boehner there was great frustration with 2700-page bills and having to pass it to read it to find out what was in it. [laughter] >> thank you, madam chairman. >> [inaudible] >> gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. >> jay barrows. could we call until question, leads? >> question can be could. okay. all in favor of calling the question? >> aye. >>...
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that publicly in a way that gets us to where we need to get the president on board candidates john boehner on board. host our next call from pittsburgh. brian and democrats. >> caller: hi, how are you doing. i want you to recall when obama told us to create jobs with solar panels and stuff like that, that ended up telling us all they could make them cheaper. when obama put a chair upon it swayne been made in america. that's the problem we have. free trade with china is killing this country. the free trade with china and we need to get together for all the countries that have social security, stuff like that and put a tariff on third world countries because we can't keep social security. china constantly gets jobs in their countries. >> host: >> guest: brand can be raised an issue to people throughout the midwestern manufacturing states and one not. when the stories told of how countries cut themselves out of the great recession of the last five years, one of the headlines nonstory is that china did an industrial stimulus program on our backs. they kept their current see artificially low. a
that publicly in a way that gets us to where we need to get the president on board candidates john boehner on board. host our next call from pittsburgh. brian and democrats. >> caller: hi, how are you doing. i want you to recall when obama told us to create jobs with solar panels and stuff like that, that ended up telling us all they could make them cheaper. when obama put a chair upon it swayne been made in america. that's the problem we have. free trade with china is killing this...
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. >> i don't consider eric cantor or john boehner part of the tea party there. but the thing about it is you are basically taking an old line of conservative republicans and putting a new label on them. in the tea party movement -- they voted for obama in 2008, these democrats did, or for john kerry or al gore in 2000. there are not many. will president iranian people stand up to this element? could president obama cinnabon entitlement changes? looking at two sides of the same point. they are both problematic. >> the voters get this. they get the joke. they needed him to be the severe mitt romney. that is why these ads look at the most over-the-top negative ads, which have come from barack obama and not mitt romney. most of the sit in the washington dc meeting. and he say, basically, i will not have a contraceptive and i will be cancer and die because of mitt romney. that is essentially what they are saying because he's going to cut off planned parenthood. i think you saw him at this debate the other day for both reasons. one, it is not territorial and he didn't
. >> i don't consider eric cantor or john boehner part of the tea party there. but the thing about it is you are basically taking an old line of conservative republicans and putting a new label on them. in the tea party movement -- they voted for obama in 2008, these democrats did, or for john kerry or al gore in 2000. there are not many. will president iranian people stand up to this element? could president obama cinnabon entitlement changes? looking at two sides of the same point. they...